Thank you to all who provided ideas and votes on this topic. We used that data to help prioritize the improvements starting in Visual Studio 2012, and continue with the releases after.

As we believe the document format is faster, we’d like to close this item as fixed to give your votes back to use on specific topics. Our Visual Studio performance team will continue working to improve performance at an ongoing basis. When you have specific performance issues, it’s now really easy to use the feedback tools right inside Visual Studio to send us feedback with performance traces, see instructions on how to do this here:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt632287.aspx; these traces help us to home in on your issues more precisely.